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user3586591
user3586591

Reputation: 299

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'NoneType' and 'str'

So I am VERY new to programming and I started with Python 3. I started reading "Learn Python the Hard Way". Now, I got to a point where I had this code:

x = "There are %d types of people." % 10
binary = "binary"
do_not = "don't"
y = "Those who know %s and those who %s" % (binary, do_not)

print(x)
print(y)
print("I said: %r") % x

I do not really know the difference between %r, %s and %d. The error I get is TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'NoneType' and 'str' No idea what to do and how to fix it. Please explain how I can actually make it work and why it won't work. Also, what is the difference between %r,d and s? Any useful links? Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 29

Views: 83282

Answers (2)

A.J. Uppal
A.J. Uppal

Reputation: 19264

You are calling the % outside of the print() function. This tries to see if the actual function print can be printed as %r, and because print doesn't return anything, it tries to get %r for the value None (hence the NoneType error). Change it to:

print("I said: %r" %(x))

The following code:

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
x = "Hello"
print ("Hello World! %s") %(x)

Raises the following error:

Hello World! %s
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 3, in 
    print ("Hello World! %s") %(x)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'NoneType' and 'str'

Changing the code to the following works:

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
x = "Hello"
print ("Hello World! %s" %(x))

Output:

Hello World! Hello

Upvotes: 19

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1124070

You want to apply % to the string instead:

print("I said: %r" % x)

Your code is applying it to the return value of the print() call, which returns None.

Alternatively, you can switch to using str.format():

print("I said: {!r}".format(x))

Upvotes: 21

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